I know they have problems....but love the rowentas! I saw a whole bunch of irons at Ollies earlier this week. I checked the watts, quite a few were 1700. Lots of black and deckers. Low prices. 1 rowenta ar 39.00. I was looking for a new one for our RV. Bought it at Joann's on sale. Small size rowenta travel iron, my husband is happy because he does not have to keep fixing the cord on the old one! The cordless sounds nice, will have to look at those.